Photograph transferring and printing frame



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PHOTOGRAPH TRANSPERRING AND PRINTING FRAME.

Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT (.O RNELIFS THEODORE GAIN, OF OXVENSBOROUGH, KEXTI'FKY.

PHOTOGRAPH TRANSFERRING AND PRlNTlNG FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,941, dated March 5, 1889.

$erial No. 277,231. (No motleld Application filed June 15, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS THEODoEE CAIN, of Owensborough, in the county of Daviess and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Photograph 'lransferring and Printing Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The frame which is the subject of this in vention is more particularly designed to be used in the process of producing and transferring picture-films to celluloid sheets, as described in Letters Patent No. 368,223, granted to \Yilliam A. McGill, conjointly with myself as assignee, August 16, 1887. This process consisted in preparing a picture-film or transparency by the collodio-chloride or by the ordinary wet-collodion process, in toning and fixing the picture-film, drying the same, and in applying thereto a celluloid card that has been flowed with a solution of gum-camphor and alcohol, allowing the card to dry, and stripping it from the glass.

My invention consists in a novel construction of the frame with its attachments, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims, said frame being more particularly designed for transferring from the transparency to the celluloid card or plate, but also being applicable to printing photographs and to the mounting Of the picture; also, the same may be used as a developingtray under different processes.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate.

corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a face view of the frame as in use for making the transfer. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same; Fig. 3, a face view of the frame empty and with its clamping devices removed, and Fig. -L a rear view of the same Fig. 5 represents a vertical longitudinal section of the frame in position before applying the transparency to the celluloid card or plate; Fig. ii, a similar section upon the line I in Fig. 1, showing the frame in position and as in use for making the transfer; Fig. 7, a like section upon the line y 1/ in Fig. 1, showing the frame as used for mounting the picture; and Fig. 8, a further longitudinal section similar to Fig. 7, showing the frame as in use for making a print. Fig. 5) is a transverse vertical section upon the line ,2 in Fig. 1.

A is the frame proper, of rectangular form and recessed in its rear, as at b, for reception of the various plates and clampingboard, and having a ledge, arranged as a lining along its inner sides, preferably made to project slightly above the front surface of the frame to form a trough, which is provided with a spout, (,7, for running off the solution used in n'eparing the celluloid plate or card.

B the clamping-board in the rea, which is faced with a sheet of rubber or other cloth, 2, and has centrally pivoted to its back, as at f, a turn-lmckle spring-bar, t, that, when the clamping-boartfl is fitted to its place, is sprung to enter at its ends within or on the inside of clips g g, secured to opposite sides of the frame at its back to hold the celluloid plate firmly in position when making the transfer and for otherwise securing the plates entered within the recess b and to make a close joint with the trough as formed by the ledge c, the inner or lower edge of which projects below the top of the recess Z) for the-purpose. The clamping-board 13 is also provided with pivoted hook-shaped cams D l) in its rear on opposite sides and near opposite ends of the spring-bar C. These pivoted cams D D are made beveling at their outer or free ends to 5 enter between the board l3 and spring-bar C Iwhen the latter is in engagement with its clips g whereby said cams act as wedges to giyc increased tension to the spring-bar and to lock or hold it when engaged with its clips. llpon swinging these locking-cams D D back or out, however, from the s n-ing-bar, then said spring-bar may readily be turned or relieved from its engagement with the clips 9 g to remove theclamping-in ard and plates from the frame.

A spring clampingdevice is also applied to the front of the frame to hold the glass or transparency lirinly down to its place when making the transfer onto the celluloid plate or card, or whenever it otherwi. 2 may be neces sary. This clamping device is adjustable up or down, to suit different thicknesses of the glass or plate or plates within the frame and to give any desired pressure. Thus it eonsists in par; of spring-racks E E. attached to opposite sides of the frame, and in part of a central cross-bar, F, carrying on its under side arms '2' i, to which are secured partiallyelliptic springs G G, that bear down upon the glass or plate beneath them when said bar E, which is made with strap-like ends, is fitted over the spring-racks E E, so as to engage with any one of their ratchet-shaped teeth, according to the adjustment required. The spring-racks E E exert a tendency or tension to hold the cross-bar F in look with them,but easily yield toward each other when fitting said bar over them; or they may be readily pressed by the finger and thumb toward each other when it is desired to remove the bar F and take off spring-pressure from the front side of the frame.

The frame A is also fitted on its front side at what will be termed its bottom end with a spring-pressure device, II, having a soft or rubber bearingbloek, 7a, to hold the transparency in' position on the celluloid plate before clamping it down. At the opposite, or what will be termed the upper, end of the frame A, or end opposite to that carrying the spout (Z,is a pivoted leg, I, that maybe turned down to hold the frame in an inclined position to keep the solution at the bottom preparatory to putting the glass plate down, but which, when not required to be used, may be turned up out of the way alongside the frame.

To transfer the collodion film from the glass or transparency after the same has been suitably prepared and finished, the celluloid plate Z is inserted to its place within the frame and the rear clamping-board, B, secured by the devices hereinbefore described to hold it there, and so that it forms a close joint with the lower edge of the ledge c, the bar F of the front clamping device being removed. The necessary solution is then. flowed over the celluloid plate to prepare it, and the frame A set inclining by its leg I, as shown in Fig. 5, to keep the solution at the bottom preparatory to laying the transparency or glass positive m down on the 'celluloid plate I and clamping it thereon by the bar F and springs G G, as shown in Fig. 6, the spring-pressure device H serving to hold the glass till the clamping devices have been applied to it and to aid in. properly laying the glass down. The spout (1 serves to run ofi surplus or remaining solution by suitably tipping the frame. After i the transfer has been made onto the celluloid 1 card or plateZ it may be removed from the frame and allowed to dry. If necessary to mount it, the same is inserted in the frame with a mount, n, either of thicker suitablyprepared celluloid or card-board at its back and with a glass-presser, 0, on its top, to which pressuremay be applied by the bar F and springs G G, as shown in Fig.4.; or the frame may similarly be used for mounting other kinds of photographic pictures, or it may be used for making photographic printsas, for instance, by introducing a cloth, 0', onto the clamping-board B, then over it a suitablyprepared printing-paper or material, .9, and on top of it the negative 11, as shown in Fig. 8. The trough-like character of the frame also provides for it being used as a developing-tray, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The frame A, having a groove or recess, 1), in its rear on its inner side and provided with a lining-like strip or ledge, 0, having its facial sides in direction of the thickness of the frame from front to back and arranged to project below the top wall of the recess in the frame, substantially as specified.

2. The frame A, grooved or recessed in its rear, and provided with a lining-like marginally-projecting ledge, c, and spout d, essentially as shown and described.

3. The frame A, grooved or recessed in its rear, and provided with a lining-like marginally projecting ledge, c, and pivoted leg I at its one end or side, substantially as specified.

4. The combination,with the frame A,hav-

ing a recess, b,-in its rear, of the clampingboard B, the swiveling spring-bar 0, clips 9, and the pivoted wedge-like cams D D, essentially as described.

5. The combination, with the frame A, of the spring-pressure device H is, applied to the one or lower end portion of the frame in front, substantially as specified.

6. The combination, with the frame A, of the spring-racks E E, the cross-bar F, construoted to engage with said racks,-and the springs G G, carried by said bar, essentially as described.

CORNELIUS THEODORE CAIN.

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